Tapia said another group passed out sack lunches to residents who needed them.
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Leticia Tapia poses for a portrait at her Westside home on Aug. 30, 2026. Despite the high heat, storm damage and power outages, she is proud of her her community has come together.<\/p>\n
Her power came back on early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what makes our community good, that people are doing that,\u201d she said. \u201cWe always stand together.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s not the only one who feels that way. Other San Antonio residents are coming together to pick up the pieces after Friday night\u2019s storm, like those who live at the Ernest C. Olivares Senior Community on South Brazos Street.<\/p>\n
Residents there lost power through Saturday morning. The heat and darkness was stressful, said Gloria Martinez, who has lived in her apartment at the senior community for a decade.<\/p>\n
The senior community residents said they had to throw out groceries and medication when they lost electricity and their refrigerators shut off. Others were confined to the second floor by mobility issues and a powerless elevator.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all have problems, the anxiety gets to us,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n
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Assistant Manager Joann Olveda prepares hot dogs for residents of the Ernest C. Olivares Senior Community on Sunday.<\/p>\n
But many decided to stay through the storm and the subsequent power outage to take care of their neighbors, said Linda Garcia, another resident. Garcia added that the building\u2019s management had come over the weekend to knock on doors and make a hot meal Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of our residents don\u2019t have transportation or mobility,\u201d said Joann Olveda, the building\u2019s assistant manager.<\/p>\n
So she and manager Joe Rodriguez came in Sunday to serve chili dogs. Olveda is still worried, though. Buying food and medication to replace what\u2019s been lost is expensive, particularly for senior residents on fixed incomes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not over,\u201d she said. \u201cThe worst part is over, but there\u2019s more still to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Outages persist<\/p>\n
Other West Side residents are still dealing with power outages. Less than a mile away, the owners of Las Delicias Tacos #1 are trying to deal with a hole in the restaurant\u2019s roof, sagging walls and thousands of pounds of meat threatening to go bad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s super costly. You lose customers. Families are trying to eat. They\u2019re trying to come after church on a Sunday,\u201d said\u00a0Mohammed Abdel Aziz. \u201cThey want to come have their tacos and spend time together like they\u2019ve always done, and we\u2019re unable to do that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
His family has owned the restaurant for nearly 30 years. They also own a smoke shop next door. Now, they have a\u00a0backup generator that\u2019s working overtime to keep more than 2,000 pounds of meat \u2014 critical and expensive restaurant supplies \u2014 cool.<\/p>\n
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Kareem Abdel Aziz, owner of Westside restaurant Las Delicias Tacos #1, fuels a generator to refrigerate supplies at his restaurant <\/p>\n
The restaurant will be closed until they can do repairs and get power back on, but Abdel Aziz has been frustrated with lack of clarity as CPS Energy\u00a0rushes around town to restore power.<\/p>\n
The inner West Side is one of San Antonio\u2019s poorest neighborhoods, he pointed out, and he hasn\u2019t had a clear response about when power will be restored.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look in the 78207 area code, it\u2019s all outages,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it got hit that hard, you would expect them to be ready to make the repairs happen in a timely manner, and not leave families without AC, businesses without electricity at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bad situation.\u201d<\/p>\n
CPS Energy and City of San Antonio officials say they\u2019re working to resolve issues. As of 4 p.m. on Sunday<\/a>, 10,394 customers were still affected by outages<\/a>. That\u2019s down from Friday night\u2019s peak, and the more than 18,000 customers who woke up to outages Sunday morning.<\/p>\n City services and response<\/p>\n The City of San Antonio has designated resilience hubs throughout the city<\/a>, where families and their pets can stay and access air conditioning, electricity and Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n
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